You're telling me. With the flaw in full force now, some of my home computers have gone under due simply to careless users. However, for some part-time work I provide IT work for a couple of small businesses - and this is when all hell breaks loose. The real problems arise when the employees surf happily on over to their favorite web sites and check their hotmail during break, only to be confronted with a blue screen of death and end up running to their boss (who also knows nothing about his computers), who has to call me in - they are all about as tech-illiterate as can be. The situation is especially ugly because it's difficult enough to train them to use windows update - but without an official MS patch, they are left drifting without a clue. Say "third party patch" to their staff and you're met with a 'ÜÛ±-in-the-headlights stare.
Unfortunately, as much as I support the Libertarians (I'm currently a Republican but getting very disgusted with both parties equally), don't think that it's below Dems and Repubs to abandon ship if the majority of the United States wises up to the corrupt two-party system and jump onto the Libertarian boat and claim they've turned a new leaf.
To put it simply, you can't judge a man by his party, you've got to thoroughly examine all of the people you elect, because whether or not a person is a member of your political party doesn't mean they aren't going to whore themselves out to the nearest person holding a pile of cash.
Unfortunately, I think Star Wars suffers heavily from it's own massive popularity.
Before the original great three, few sci-fi "geek" films broke so successfully into the mainstream, and this is what made the original trilogy set itself up for failure. It had set up a very entertaining universe - suave bounty hunters, modern knights/paladins, a small rebellion with which the audience can love to hate the empire with, and this made it appealing to both the N*Sync loving masses and the rabid fanboys - the masses had entertaining cinemas with plenty of action and taglines, the fanboys had a new fantasy environment to revel in and plots to twitter about.
At the time, the big three were just plain fun to watch and everybody enjoyed it. Then came the new era.
Now here's the problem: Star Wars had set a precedent that even it could not aspire to as, quite possibly, the most popular cult classic to hit the big screen, which presented the paradox: to delve more deeply into the saga and please the fanboys and leave the masses scratching their heads, or to punch out a bland shoot-em-up that everybody knew would be widely viewed courtesy of the former popularity of the old three. In my opinion, Lucas blundered and attempted to stay in the middle, but ended up bending to the will of the huddled masses a little. This produced what we see now: a duly franchised and heavily marketed funfilled joyride that the majority of devotees to the series saw as a sellout. However, it also lacked the memorable characters that, while few, the originals had contained. The suave bounty hunters, the fiesty princesses and the grandfatherly old man Obi-wan were now gone which killed it even for the mass of casual viewers. The biggest outburst of memorable emotion in the new three is Vader's passionate "Nooooo."
Like many before me have said here, I'm glad I have the unspoiled versions safely tucked away in my cabinet, with no ghostly young Anakin to be seen at the end of the last movie.
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You're telling me. With the flaw in full force now, some of my home computers have gone under due simply to careless users. However, for some part-time work I provide IT work for a couple of small businesses - and this is when all hell breaks loose. The real problems arise when the employees surf happily on over to their favorite web sites and check their hotmail during break, only to be confronted with a blue screen of death and end up running to their boss (who also knows nothing about his computers), who has to call me in - they are all about as tech-illiterate as can be. The situation is especially ugly because it's difficult enough to train them to use windows update - but without an official MS patch, they are left drifting without a clue. Say "third party patch" to their staff and you're met with a 'ÜÛ±-in-the-headlights stare.
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Unfortunately, as much as I support the Libertarians (I'm currently a Republican but getting very disgusted with both parties equally), don't think that it's below Dems and Repubs to abandon ship if the majority of the United States wises up to the corrupt two-party system and jump onto the Libertarian boat and claim they've turned a new leaf.
To put it simply, you can't judge a man by his party, you've got to thoroughly examine all of the people you elect, because whether or not a person is a member of your political party doesn't mean they aren't going to whore themselves out to the nearest person holding a pile of cash.
Unfortunately, I think Star Wars suffers heavily from it's own massive popularity.
Before the original great three, few sci-fi "geek" films broke so successfully into the mainstream, and this is what made the original trilogy set itself up for failure. It had set up a very entertaining universe - suave bounty hunters, modern knights/paladins, a small rebellion with which the audience can love to hate the empire with, and this made it appealing to both the N*Sync loving masses and the rabid fanboys - the masses had entertaining cinemas with plenty of action and taglines, the fanboys had a new fantasy environment to revel in and plots to twitter about.
At the time, the big three were just plain fun to watch and everybody enjoyed it. Then came the new era.
Now here's the problem: Star Wars had set a precedent that even it could not aspire to as, quite possibly, the most popular cult classic to hit the big screen, which presented the paradox: to delve more deeply into the saga and please the fanboys and leave the masses scratching their heads, or to punch out a bland shoot-em-up that everybody knew would be widely viewed courtesy of the former popularity of the old three. In my opinion, Lucas blundered and attempted to stay in the middle, but ended up bending to the will of the huddled masses a little. This produced what we see now: a duly franchised and heavily marketed funfilled joyride that the majority of devotees to the series saw as a sellout. However, it also lacked the memorable characters that, while few, the originals had contained. The suave bounty hunters, the fiesty princesses and the grandfatherly old man Obi-wan were now gone which killed it even for the mass of casual viewers. The biggest outburst of memorable emotion in the new three is Vader's passionate "Nooooo."
Like many before me have said here, I'm glad I have the unspoiled versions safely tucked away in my cabinet, with no ghostly young Anakin to be seen at the end of the last movie.